Were you the faster sibling or the slower one

Also my older brother ran one season of XC and then stopped. But his one season was enough to get me into the sport. I was/is faster than him but we probably would've been comparable had he pursued it.

In high school my brother (1 year older) was a multiple time state champ. I was a nobody.

We went to college together and kind of evened out. I was better at the shorter track distances (mile and down) and cross country, and he was better at the longer track races. I'm also like 6'3" and 175lbs, while he's 5'8" and 125 lbs. I'm more of a strong grinder and he's more of a light-footed efficiency type. I was better suited for the grass, but I could carry my bulk around the track pretty quick if the race wasn't too long-although I don't have much leg speed. I could just hold a decent pace for decently long time. He did much better at the longer stuff on a flat surface, where efficiency is key.

Now, a decent amount of years post-collegiate, I've moved pretty far beyond him at all distances. He has a good career that he invests a lot of time in, and is prone to injury. So he'll go a long time between injuries before getting back at it since he likes focusing on his job in the mean time. I'm relatively durable and the consistency has paid off.

My brother is 2.5 years younger than me (I'm a female) and has always been way slower than me at any distance and generally less athletic than me in just about everything except for sports that involve high levels of hand eye coordination and no running (such as various types of golf...I can still out-drive him even though he's stronger than me, but he out-puts me.) He is a musician and is generally fat and lazy and hates sports. He is stronger than me, so he can lift more, but still is worse at most sports. I'm 27 now and he's 25.

did wrote:

for fun, these are the elite siblings I remembered quickly:

kenenisa (older) > tariku

bernard (older) > robert

jorge > eduardo (twins)

jonathan (twin, oldest) > kevin (twin, oldest) > dylan (youngest) > olivia (middle, using iaaf scoring table for gender comparison)

genzebe (youngest) > tirunesh (middle) > ejegayehu (oldest)

saif > abraham (older)

mo > all brothers

ryan (older) > chad

ryan (oldest) > nate > others (I don't think the others ran)

zane > jake (twins)

henrik (oldest) > filip (youngest) > jakob (middle)

matt > lauren (older)

lopez (oldest) > alex (youngest) > peter (middle)

I noticed of all the runner siblings I knew, the older tended to be faster. Maybe this is true of elites as well. Which is the opposite of most sports where many star athletes are the youngest of the family.

Faster, for now. My younger brother has no competitive edge but swims my PR's 3 years younger then I was setting them. His ability is phenomenal but I can't overstate how little he cares for improvement. Should he ever start to care, my running times in races shorter than the 8k look to be in danger

HardLoper wrote:

did wrote:

for fun, these are the elite siblings I remembered quickly:

kenenisa (older) > tariku

bernard (older) > robert

jorge > eduardo (twins)

jonathan (twin, oldest) > kevin (twin, oldest) > dylan (youngest) > olivia (middle, using iaaf scoring table for gender comparison)

genzebe (youngest) > tirunesh (middle) > ejegayehu (oldest)

saif > abraham (older)

mo > all brothers

ryan (older) > chad

ryan (oldest) > nate > others (I don't think the others ran)

zane > jake (twins)

henrik (oldest) > filip (youngest) > jakob (middle)

matt > lauren (older)

lopez (oldest) > alex (youngest) > peter (middle)

I noticed of all the runner siblings I knew, the older tended to be faster. Maybe this is true of elites as well. Which is the opposite of most sports where many star athletes are the youngest of the family.

You probably don't have to look too far to find a whole bunch of better younger siblings or not much difference.

Ismael Kirui and Richard Chelimo? About equal

The Morceli Bros? Nourredine was light years better.

I was the fastest one.@bathtubgin@big787

Tom PVed & Dick 880ed wrote:

Either way you have tales to say.

Or perhaps there was a period when it looked like you would never even beat big Sis. . .

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I was always much, much faster than my sister (3 years younger than I) but she was far stronger than me. She was taller than me too for much of our childhood but then I grew and she didn't.

I'm 5'6" and she is 4'1"

She also outweighs me from what looks like 50lbs.

I am still much, much faster.

[quote]did wrote:

for fun, these are the elite siblings I remembered quickly:

jonathan (twin, oldest) > kevin (twin, oldest) > dylan (youngest) > olivia (middle, using iaaf scoring table for gender comparison)

Edith de Maertelaere their Mother ran at least 54.09 and was a 200m National Champion Dad Jacques was an Olympic 400m runner with a 45.4 PR

Strongbadialand wrote:

I was faster at 800m down, he was faster at 1500m up.

I'm faster at everything now, because he got fat since college and basically can't run anymore without hurting himself, while I run about 15 to 20mpw, which is plenty for me to be way faster than him now. Being a former 1430/406 runner doesn't help much if you're 30 pounds overweight now.

He tries to do some elliptical now and then, but I think at this point, he has basically forgotten how tough we once were and he doesn't work out hard enough or often enough to make the weight come off.

Your brother has a common problem. It's not lack of motivation or guts.

It's just that running is not as fun anymore for him. Running 5 miles under 6 minute mile pace is fun. Suddenly when you have a hard time breaking 7 minutes per mile, it becomes less fun.

My brother doesn't run so I'm the fastest sibling sort of by default. 16:53 5k PR. My brother can't run 400m without stopping.

I have an older brother and a younger sister and I was the only one who ever had the slightest interest in doing anything athletic.

As a little kid I was hopelessly slow because I was born without a fast-twitch fiber in my body and little kids never do anything that lasts more than 30 sec or so. Every year we did the 50-yard dash as part of our physical fitness testing and I could only beat a couple of the fat kids, and there weren't many fat kids back in the 1960s. But I had an epiphany the first time they made us run 600 yards in PE class and all the other kids stopped after 200-300 yards, allowing me to circle the field and finish second, behind the one girl who had both decent sprinting speed and excellent stamina.

Anyway, I'm now in my late 50s and dealing with the sorts of overuse injuries runners get, but very active and essentially healthy. My sedentary brother is obese and my sister walks and does yoga, maintains a healthy weight and looks good, but is severely limited by arthritis.

did wrote:

for fun, these are the elite siblings I remembered quickly:

kenenisa (older) > tariku

bernard (older) > robert

jorge > eduardo (twins)

jonathan (twin, oldest) > kevin (twin, oldest) > dylan (youngest) > olivia (middle, using iaaf scoring table for gender comparison)

genzebe (youngest) > tirunesh (middle) > ejegayehu (oldest)

saif > abraham (older)

mo > all brothers

ryan (older) > chad

ryan (oldest) > nate > others (I don't think the others ran)

zane > jake (twins)

henrik (oldest) > filip (youngest) > jakob (middle)

matt > lauren (older)

lopez (oldest) > alex (youngest) > peter (middle)

nice list

The Dyce brothers ran a 3:23.8 relay indoor Olympic Invite NYC

iirc it would be Byron>Trevor?Dennis>Leo

big bro's 2:14 marathon puts my lame 2:25 to shame ;(

DIG the Dyce bros stat there wineturtle...thanks for that...very cool.

This is interesting to me as well. It was true in my family and I think it's due to the different mentalities common between siblings. I was the oldest, and certainly the fastest. However, my younger sister was absolutely more talented... just lacked the discipline or drive. Funny how things work out.

My sister is three years older than me. Growing up, she would smoke me. She would even line up for sprints at the end of my baseball team's practices and beat all the guys. It was embarrassing. She went on to be a legit sprinter in high school and college. I went on to be a distance runner. She still could have beaten me pretty handily in anything from a 500 on down, even when I was in top shape. Daggum slow-twitch muscles.

MikeF wrote:

big bro's 2:14 marathon puts my lame 2:25 to shame ;(

DIG the Dyce bros stat there wineturtle...thanks for that...very cool.

Feb 21 1975 NYOlympic Invite the running order was Dennis to Trevor to Leo to Byron

OOF

CW Post 3:22.3

NY Tech 3:23.3

Temple 3:23.6

Dyce Bros 3:23.8

I'm a 14:45 5k guy. Neither of my two brothers ever broke 20 for 5k. They could never quite understand how I ran so fast, while I could never understand why they couldn't at least beat the first woman. Our builds were the same and we generally did the same kind of training. No doubt genetics has some play in who can run and who can't. Our parents were not athletes.

PR is 15:35, sister ran around 20:00. she always placed better than me tho